Photos: Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the 1951 film “An American in Paris.” Directed by Vincente Minelli, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant. Screenplay by Alan Lerner. Music by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.
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Photo: “Amadeus”, Academy Award Winning Best Picture of 1984. Of the 11
nominations the film won eight, for Best Picture, Best Actor (F. Murray
Abraham), Best Director, Best Screenplay Adaptation, Best Art/Set
Direction, Best Sound, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup.
Starring Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, , Elizabeth Berridge, Simon
Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay,
Cynthia Nixon. Directed by Milos Forman. Written by Peter
Shaffer.
Photo:
Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in “The King and I.”
A
1956
musical film
directed by
Walter Lang
and produced by
Darryl F. Zanuck
and
Charles Brackett.
Screenplay:
Ernest Lehman.
The film was based on the
Richard Rodgers
and
Oscar Hammerstein II
musical “The
King and I,” taken from Margaret
Landon’s book “Anna
and the King of Siam.”
Sample of an exceptional musical film: The “Music Man” Meredith Willson's "The Music Man", starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones won 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Author, Composer and Lyricist. The film cast album won the Grammy Award, and the film score won an Academy Award. This is a magnificent, heart-felt film, memorable with delightful, innocent and beautiful tunes that follow you home like a stray dog. It is the innocent story of power of love, belief, and the importance of trying something new in life. It is also filled with characters hard to forget; Mayor Shinn and Eulalie, his henpecking wife, and his squeaky daughter Zaneeta…Marian the Librarian, the romantic nostalgia of Barbershop quartet…and those sweet and memorable tunes: "Rock Island", "My White Knight", "Marian The Librarian", "Wells Fargo Wagon", "Good Night My Someone", "Iowa Stubborn", and "Seventy-Six Trombones." Meredith Willson's “tuneful look” at small-town America, and the impact a colorful outsider had on it took Hollywood, Broadway and the United States by storm.
Reproduced from the book "Best Musicians, Singers, Albums and Entertainment Personalities of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries", Volume V of World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment.